{"id":4990,"date":"2026-08-07T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:58:39","slug":"did-you-know-the-manuscript-collections-in-special-collections-are-searchable-on-the-library-catalogue-and-on-sundigital-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/2026\/08\/07\/did-you-know-the-manuscript-collections-in-special-collections-are-searchable-on-the-library-catalogue-and-on-sundigital-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know &#8211; The manuscript collections in Special Collections are searchable on the library catalogue and on SUNDigital Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manuscript collections in Special Collections are searchable on the library catalogue and on SUNDigital Collections. In the catalogue you can search for a topic and limit your <strong>publication type to \u201cManuscript<\/strong> \u201c. See the example below:<\/p>\n<p>Search the catalogue for \u201c<strong>Maggie Laubser<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4992\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2026\/08\/Search1-580x208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2026\/08\/Search1-580x208.png 580w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2026\/08\/Search1-676x243.png 676w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2026\/08\/Search1.png 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will give you a description of what is in the manuscript collection.<\/p>\n<p>To find more detailed information you can use the \u201cFinding Aids\u201d. The link will take you to a searchable PDF on SUNDigital Collections\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.sun.ac.za\/handle\/10019.2\/14631\">Finding Aids<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4994\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4994\" class=\"wp-image-4994 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2026\/08\/Search2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"241\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on Collection Index<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4996\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2026\/08\/Search-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enquiries: <a href=\"mailto:hmbuys@sun.ac.za\">Marieta Buys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manuscript collections in Special Collections are searchable on the library catalogue and on SUNDigital Collections. In the catalogue you can search for a topic and limit your publication type to \u201cManuscript \u201c. See the example below: Search the catalogue for \u201cMaggie Laubser\u201d This will give you a description of what is in the manuscript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tu3H-1iu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}